Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
QUEEN LATIFAHYou have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
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Even if you don’t have anything, even if you’ve got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
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When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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